When you work as a cooking teacher.. food gets left over often in class. Sometimes there are only one or two students but the recipe is for 6 people.I still make that recipe. The other day it was Duck Ragu.Am I lucky! We sort of had to run through making a sauce that normally would…
That time of year… Carnevale.. quando ogni scherzo vale!
Carneval in Italy is a big deal, not just in Venice where the costumes are really “over the top” but in small villages too. Florence has started a WORLD CARNEVAL, celebrating the large mixed cultures which now live here, quite a change from when I moved here in 1984, when the foreigners were the people…
Florida moments
We really didn’t see much of Florida… as we had our heads inside kitchens, but a few of the funny and beautiful things we did see. It was fabulous to wake up and have a real breakfast… I miss that in Italy. Although Expresso is better than coffee, there is something about gently sitting around…
The ” Club Tour” in Florida
I must say, I was scared to take on the task of teaching cooking in Florida when everyone from my classes here told me how hard it was to find good ingredients.But I am not one to back away from a challenge. When I was invited by one of my favorite students, Fr Micheal, to…
Soothing Soup Minestrone
There is nothing like a soup to soothe all. Winter this year has not brought on the chill’s which are relieved by soup until now. So as soon as the first chill came in, soup’s on! After being in a sort of Summer in Florida, the Tuscan winter called me back to the roots of soup,…
How can you miss me if I don’t go away?
I am going through blogging withdrawl! I just returned from my “CLUB TOUR” in Florida. I taught a class at Ocean Reef Cooking School in Key Largo followed by two dinners for members and then off to Port Royal Club in Naples Florida for a series of dinner classes and fund raisers. All went so…
Italian Eye Candy
Lucky me… on the train ride back from Florence to Certaldo.. I spotted one of Italy’s new hot chef’s. foto from book: Se in Cucina c’e Simone Simone Rugiati, is a bomb of energy. He has a 10 minute recipe show on the Gambero Rosso Channel is a guest chef on a well known morning…
Happy 2007
I have always dreamed about making a calendar of the market.. but never got around to it. thanks to Flickr…. Here is your Market Calendar! To download the calendar, click on the link above, then click on each month. You choose a size and download image to your computer, FREE! Please let me know if…